However, reading the first page of the thread, it seems like a lot more people were favorable to the movie as opposed to now.
I don't think we've had "a lot" of people discussing the movie at all. There are only a handful of us in total, and it's not all the same people. Ghost/Chris loved the movie, Andrew hated it, and everyone else has been mixed-to-positive.
Obviously the movie didn't change, so is it the media coverage blaming men for criticizing legitimate problems with the film the reason why folks are growing tired of it? Or the harassmentTM
This is confusingly phrased. As someone who's heavily plugged into pop culture, I can guarantee that TLJ was enormously controversial from the moment it was released, and one or two wise souls from the pre-release screenings even warned reddit that this would not be a movie they embraced. I'm not aware of any mass backlash or shift in opinion, and I don't see why the articles you mentioned (and inaccurately described) would have changed anyone's opinion of the movie.
Also I saw that the director or someone is threatening fans of the movie with "consequences" if they don't stop being so mean.
I believe you're talking about
what James Mangold said, although he's not the only director to have weighed in on this. Mangold can be very pretentious at times, and one thing that absolutely drives me nuts about the way he writes is his feigned affect of being this folksy, salt-of-the-earth, rough-and-tumble, blue-collar guy who ain't one for talking English good because he's just an average joe who wears blue jeans and drives a tractor! It's such bullshit. He doesn't talk like that, because nobody talks like that, and even if he did, he still wouldn't
write like that. But, uh, setting all that aside, he does make a valid point.